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LGBT Philanthropy Tour Encourages Support of Southern Africa
Inka von Sternenfels listens intently to the guide along with other LGBT members of the LGBTQI Donor Study Tour of South Africa. Photo by Tracy Gary. By Heather Cassell Anyone who knows Jody Cole, owner of Wild Rainbow African Safaris, know she’s passionate about Africa…
Author: PQ Monthly
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UNHCR urged to probe SA body's 'failure to aid refugees'
by NATASHA JOSEPH ANGRY civil society groups have asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to launch a commission of inquiry into its Pretoria office which, they say, failed to “meet its mandate to protect refugees and displaced people” following xenophobic attacks that…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Xenophobia downplayed, but government quietly taking it seriously
By Wilson Johwa. THE government may have chosen to deny the existence of xenophobic violence but was better prepared for it than in 2008, says Gerald Kraak, South African head of the US foundation Atlantic Philanthropies. After the 2008 attacks it commissioned a study whose…
Author: Business Day
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DNA proposal 'will violate rights'
by KARABO KEEPILE The South African Human Rights Commission has balked at proposed legislation designed to equip police crime-fighters with a DNA database, arguing that a number of its provisions may be unconstitutional. In a public hearing in Parliament on Tuesday, the commission argued that…
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SA sits on a powder keg - Tutu
by ELLA SMOOK Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu has warned that South Africa remains perched on a powder keg of inequality as a result of the gap between rich and poor. Delivering the keynote |address at the first international Chief of Chaplains Conference taking place in…
Author: Cape Argus (South Africa)
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Camps for displaced foreigners 'inhumane'
Original Source By Chelsea Laun Foreign nationals displaced by xenophobic violence two months ago are still enduring inhumane living conditions and basic human rights violations in Western Cape refugee camps, say two reports by the South African Human Rights Commission and the Joint Refugee Leadership…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Xenophobic violence last May organised by community leaders, says researcher
JOHANNESBURG: The xenophobic violence last May was organised by “community leaders”, a university researcher said yesterday. “The community leaders – the street committees, the comrades, the CPF (Community Policing Forum) as they are called – are involved. “They were the ones who were organising the…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: Rays of Hope in Terrible Times
Johannesburg, South Africa When I arrived here on Monday after eighteen hours in transit, I was greeted by the horrific image on the front page of that morning’s Star, of a refugee hunted down by a mob and burned alive, in a grim imitation of…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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OIA win case for Argentina's XXY
Original Source Out in Africa is an Atlantic grantee. The Film and Publication Board’s 2008 banning order on Argentinian film “XXY” has been overturned. Out In Africa (OIA) plans to present “XXY”, director Lucía Puenzo and actor Inés Efron, at this years OUT IN AFRICA South…
Author: BizCommunity.com (South Africa)
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Being lesbian in SA could get you killed - report
by FRANNY RABKIN BEING out as a lesbian in SA can get you killed. Or raped. Or both. This is the “shocking” reality faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered people in this country, although they live in a country with one of the most…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)